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Torn

Ifeanyi Sibling·February 16, 2024

Torn written by: Ifeanyi Sibling How do I tell anyone now? Love has rendered me incomplete Your...

Poetry English

·1 min read

Search of The Lost

Daria Vorobeva·February 15, 2024

Search of The Lost written by: Daria Vorobeva A gallery of my dead relatives is greeting me...

Literature English

·3 mins read

The Return

Karen Kinley·February 14, 2024

The Return written by: Karen Kinley @iamkarenkinley The pristine beach was exactly as he remembered it from...

English Literature

·1 min read

Nightcap

JPK·February 13, 2024

Nightcap written by: JPK My Dad came back again last night as if he’d never been away....

Poetry English Featured Post

·1 min read

Snowflakes

Stephen Ferrett·February 10, 2024

Snowflakes written by: Stephen Ferrett Warming pink glow, sky obscured, icy blast, cascading drifts, hearts, and souls’...

Poetry English

·1 min read

Anonymous

Amira Waleed·February 8, 2024

Anonymous written by: Amira Waleed Name: Anonymous Age: 11 Gender: female “My dad is talking to other...

English Literature

·5 mins read

Emily and Billy Forever

Victor Roy Kirwan·February 3, 2024

Emily and Billy Forever written by: Victor Roy Kirwan Emily and I had been together forever. Well,...

Literature English

·2 mins read

Soul

Charlie Williamson·February 2, 2024

Soul written by: Charlie Williamson From beyond the grave, I feel her: She looks like me and...

Poetry English

·1 min read

This World is Yours

Michael L. Utley·January 31, 2024

This World is Yours written by: Michael L. Utley you thought you could save the world wee...

English Poetry

·1 min read

Consistent Hypocrisy

Steve Dooré·January 28, 2024

Consistent Hypocrisy written by: Steve Dooré @stevedoore84 He had never understood the world he had chosen to...

Literature English Featured Post

·23 mins read

If You Should Go

JahArt Kushite·January 27, 2024

If You Should Go written by: JahArt Kushite @JahartK If you should go, please leave like a...

Poetry English

·1 min read

What We’ve Come To

Peter Farrar·January 25, 2024

What We’ve Come To written by: Peter Farrar I hadn’t noticed your sunspots. Sprinkled over hands the...

English Literature Featured Post

·6 mins read

What is Forever Past is Eternally Present

Anna Veress·January 22, 2024

What is Forever Past is Eternally Present written by: Anna Veress To live is to haunt. “Our...

Literature English

·3 mins read

Abba

Afra Adil Ahmad·January 22, 2024

Abba written by: Afra Adil Ahmad Abba says: You’re the light of my universe So when the...

Poetry English

·1 min read

After a long career tinkering in telecommunications, Jim Bartlett switched to tinkering with writing fiction, both requiring a stretch of the imagination. In the course of putting his fingers to the keyboard, he's been fortunate to have quite a number of his stories featured both in print and online in several wonderful publications, including a story selected for "The Best of Fiction on the Web, 1996 – 2017" anthology. While mentally he strolls along a warm California beach with his wife and golden retriever (shhh, she doesn't know she's a dog), physically they reside on a special little island in the Pacific Northwest.

Reaper by Sharon Frame Gay

As an orphaned son of an orphan, I always see the glass as half empty. I picture the water murky and lukewarm, a waterline etched below the rim. Maybe with an ash or two floating at the bottom, because that’s what I do for a living. I deal with ashes. The remains of the deceased. No matter how those who pass away see their glass, meager or full, they eventually end up in a satchel carried on my shoulder.
My business card reads “Morton Stark Transport.” I’m called upon to disperse the ashes of the dearly departed and honor their final wishes. People hire me to escort the remains throughout the world ...

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